culture: Geographic and cultural predictors of country homicide

Description Usage Format Source

Description

The culture data contains 92 rows and 5 columns from a study on the predictors of homicide rate by country.

Usage

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Format

An object of class data.frame containing the following columns:

country

A factor vector containing the country names correspond to each row of observations.

murder.rate

Numeric vector giving murder rate as expected annual murders per 10,000 people.

pasture

Numeric vector giving the percentage of geographic area used as pasture.

gini

Numeric vector of Gini coefficients, a measure of income disparity.

gnp

Numeric vector of gross national products in US dollars.

Source

  1. Dougherty, M.R., Thomas, R.P., Brown, R.P., Chrabaszcz, J.S., and Tidwell, J.W. (2014). An introduction to the general monotone model with application to two problematic datasets. Sociological Methods.

  2. Brown, R. P., & Osterman, L. L. (2012). Culture of Honor, Violence. The Oxford handbook of evolutionary perspectives on violence, homicide, and war, 218.


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